IxDA-SF is back in 2008 with our fourth event in our design tools
series. We are very excited to be presenting Indi Young's book launch
party! Indi will be discussing her book: "Mental Models - Aligning
Design Strategy with Human Behavior".

Mental Models: Sparking Creativity Through Empathy

Anybody can tell you when they're in love, but can they map out the
behavior that leads to this sought-after state?

This may only apply to inhouse folks, but I am curious about how you as a designer interact with business development folks? Those are the people, sometimes in marketing, bizdev (obviously) and sometimes in product, that come up with great ideas that they want to flush out.

Is this a collaborative process - or is it more waterfall.? Do you get enough input? Is there research done?

MissionStaff has an urgent need for 1-2 Information
architects/Interaction designers to join our client's Center City
Philadelphia team on an 8-12 week engagement working on a high profile
communications project. This person would need to work on site at least
40h/week.

You are responsible for creating a world-class visual UI style with a
team of graphics designers and contractors, interaction designers and
usability specialists, and planning and delivering high quality design
in static and motion graphics, layout design, icon and symbol design,
and design for transitions and animations. You can lead and motivate a
design team and ensure a high quality output with a flexible and
hands-on process. You lead the design team and manage resourcing and
budgeting.

This sounds like a really interesting project. Are you planning to adapt the information being displayed on the screen based on the satisfaction of the user? I think that could be very risky unless you get a really high reliability in your analysis as automatically changing what is displayed can be frustrating if you don't want it to change.

I would probably not use pupil size data in this analysis as it depends on so many different factors like lighting conditions, the brightness of the stimulus and arousal (which in turn can be affected by numerous things).

Besides offering the functionality it offers on the web, I expect the
mobile 2.0 Apps to integrate with mobile phone's native Apps and
provide a seamless experience. i.e. take a picture from mobile's
camera and upload it to Flickr or Facebook..etc; without opening the
application.

I'm drafting the second part of an article on Hiring UX professionals
for Boxes and Arrows at the moment and researching people's thoughts
on the all important axis of personality when hiring UX folk.

Can you tell me whether you think that personality typing tests like
Myers Briggs or DISC are helpful to you in either hiring or working
with others in your discipline?

When thinking about the individual streams of Research, Information
Architecture, Interaction Design, Graphic Design and Writing, do you
reckon each of these should display any particular personality
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